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...Hollywood, the director was the guy in the safari jacket and jodhpurs who ruled the set with the whip of machismo. Now the person who calls the shots is often a woman. Pictures by such directors as Amy Heckerling and Susan Seidelman are both making money and dragging a reluctant film industry into the age of equal opportunity...
Morris could do more than just write a biography. He could reshape the study of leadership and the presidency. "I want to do a detailed, literary work on personality as power," says Morris. He has already spent time in Hollywood talking with those who knew and worked with Reagan. Soon Morris will go to Dixon, Ill., and live for a spell along the President's boyhood streets. There he will search for keys to Reagan's character, look for experiences of those distant years that surface today. Morris has noted that at Reagan's "cutting edge" lunches, where pioneering physicists...
...Hollywood! Barbara Boyle, former senior vice president at Orion Pictures, dubs the place "Boys Town." Director Martha Coolidge calls it "the land of the starlet." Hollywood, though, has always been an industry in which powerful men made films starring beautiful women. The guys ran things--as producers, directors, bosses--and the highest-paid females were so much screen sirloin. The very job descriptions were sexist: cameraman but script girl. And ruling the set, in his safari jacket and jodhpurs, was the director--an amalgam of Da Vinci and De Sade, Patton and Hemingway. A man's man. No girls needed...
They are now, though. Women have started demolishing Hollywood's most honored typecasting: the macho movie director. They have done it the old-fashioned way, by making movies that make money. Amy Heckerling's National Lampoon's European Vacation earned some $50 million at the box office and finished among 1985's top-ten-grossing pictures. Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan raked in $27.5 million on a $5 million budget and graced many a ten-best list. Now that, as Seidelman notes, "women directors are no longer looked at as novelty items," their more established sisters can get back...
Women are scoring in the low-budget action and independent markets as well, directing movies that can serve as calling cards to the major studios. Penelope Spheeris, 40, has two grungy, turbulent melodramas in release this month, Hollywood Vice Squad and The Boys Next Door. At the other end of the fringe, Donna Deitch, 40, won the Jury Prize at this year's U.S. Film Festival with Desert Hearts, a tale of Sapphic love in Reno that plays like The Women hyped on estrogen. The festival's Grand Prize went to Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk, which opened...